Topic: Kurt Beck
Quotes
I assure you that we are mourning as deeply and intensively as when we would had the victims been German citizens
Analysis: Fire kills nine, shocks millions Feb 08, 2008
I'm sure we can do more as far as reconstruction in Afghanistan is concerned, but I'm as much convinced that this mission is driving our military capacities to the brink of exhaustion
German jets set off for Afghanistan Apr 02, 2007
Kurt Beck (born February 5, 1949) is a German politician (SPD), serving as the Minister President of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) since 1994 and as President of the Bundesrat in 2000/01. On May 14, 2006, he succeeded Matthias Platzeck as Chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). He resigned from that post on September 7, 2008.
Beck was born in Bad Bergzabern, Palatinate, to the bricklayer Oskar Beck and his wife Johanna. Both his parents had their roots in the town Kapsweyer in southern Rhenish Palatinate. He grew up in Steinfeld.
From 1963 to 1968, he became an electrician. After passing his military duty in 1968 and 1969, he graduated from an evening school in 1972. Since then, he went on as an employee representative on works councils.
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